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The village police of the District aggregates a total strength of 1574. The regular police force numbered in 1881-82, 698 officers and men of ranks, being in the proportion of

all

The

total cost of

^18,400.

The

—with annual

i

to every

maintenance of the force

number

municipalities are 2 in

^2000

incomes of ;^8ooo and

yearly to almost the

full

amount

1077 of the population.

in that year

in local

amounted

to

— Bellary and Adoni respectively,

expended

Education of

improvements.

an elementary kind is carried on in the pidl or village indigenous schools, of which there w'ere in 1882, 267 w'ith an average attendance of 4800 pupils, one or more of these schools being established in every considerable hamlet. For higher-class teaching, grants aid

in I

are

Provincial

given

10

to

school at

supported by Government,

the

Roman

District,

Catholic

2

Anglo-vernacular

Church

of the

fees

covering

scholars

The London Missionary

about a third of the expenses. the

while

schools,

and

Bellary with a daily attendance of 320 are

only

Society and

have old-established missions in the

maintaining between them several schools and two asylums

for the poor.

Medical Aspects. rainfall

—The

climate

being only 20 inches.

to 83“ F. in

is

The

extremely dry, the average annual daily temperature ranges from 67°

November and December, and rises to an average of 93° mean from January to October inclusive being

during April, the yearly 84°.

Since 1820, eighteen years have been

officially

recorded as seasons

of epidemic cholera, the mortality in 1845 18,000, and in 1866 over 20,000. Fever exists in an endemic form, but in 1834, 1841, and 1866, the mortality from this cause was especially high; in 1880 the

number of deaths was returned

Ophthalmia is common, owing and the glare from the granite rocks. 1842, 1843, and 1844; occurring again

at 9559.

to the dryness of the atmosphere

Cattle-disease was epidemic in in

1847, 1848, and 1849.

was very ance

is

great, as also in 1868.

provided

for the

1^57) Ae loss of cattle from murrain Gratuitous medical advice and attend-

poorer classes by the

civil

dispensaries at

Harpanhalli, Kadlighi, Allur, Hospet, Adoni, and Bellary

— the expenses

being defrayed partly by local subscription, but mainly by municipal

These dispensaries, as a rule, are only resorted to by the poor charms and exorcisms have failed. The mortuary returns for the

grants. after

District during the three years ending

1870 gave an average mortality

In 1880 of 21,000, or about 13 per thousand on the total population. the total number of deaths from all causes amounted to 26,227, cr

about 16 per thousand. [For further information regarding Bellary, see the ALanual of the Bellary District, by J. Kelsall, Esq., C.S. (Madras, Also the Aladras Census Report for 1881, and the Madi-as 1872). Provincial Administration Reports from 1880 to 1883.

For the famine on in this

aspects of Bellary District, which are but slightly touched